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Perseverance with an open and growth mind and a brave heart
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Honors

Awards and Honors

  • Annual Outstanding Contribution Award for Editorial Board Members of Tsinghua Science and Technology
  • Listed among 2024 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers Linkreleased in Nov. 2024
  • Outstanding Reviewer for ECML PKDD 2024
  • Distinguished Paper Award, ICSOC 2024
  • Listed among the World’ Top 2% Scientists list compiled by Stanford University in career long and the single year category 2024. Linkreleased in Sept. 2024
  • Listed among the World’ Top 2% Scientists list compiled by Stanford University in career long and the single year category 2023. Linkreleased in Oct. 2023
  • Best Paper Award, 2023 Global Marketing Conference at Seoul
  • Listed among the Best Computer Scientists in Australia
  • Chris Wallace Award for Outstanding Research Contribution, The Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE) 2023
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE SCC 2022
  • Listed among the World’ Top 2% Scientists list compiled by Stanford University and published at PLOS in the single year category 2021.
  • Educational Excellence and Innovation Group Award, UNSW Faculty of Engineering Excellence Awards 2021
  • Best Paper Candidate, International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2021
  • Winner of 2021 Australia and New Zealand Women in AI Awards in the category of AI in Cybersecurity, 2021
  • Academic Excellence, UNSW Faculty of Engineering Excellence Awards, 2020
  • Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Higher Degree Research Supervision in the Emerging Supervisor Category 2020,UNSW
  • Listed among the World’ Top 2% Scientists list compiled by Stanford University and published at PLOS in the single year category 2020.
  • Best Paper Award in 2020 Australian Database Conference (ADC 2020)
  • Scientia Fellow , UNSW (awarded in December 2019, funded for 2020 - 2024)
  • Best Paper Award, ADMA 2019
  • Transition Fellowship, UNSW 2019
  • Best Student Paper Runner-up, ADMA 2017
  • Attend Microsoft Faulty Summit 2016
  • ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow (awarded in Nov 2015, funded for 2016 – 2018)
  • Inaugural Vice Chancellor's Women's Research Excellence Award, The University of Adelaide 2015
  • Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence, The University of Adelaide 2014
  • ACM Travel Grant for SIGIR, 2014
  • Media Release of PhD work, Integrating the physical and digital worlds, The University of Adelaide 2014
  • Google Fellowship Nomination, Google, 2013
  • Google PhD Prize, Google 2012
  • IBM PhD Travel Award, IBM 2011
  • Highly Commended Research Poster Award, ARC EII PhD Summer School, 2010
  • Selective Travel Bursary from the ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure's (EII) PhD Summer School, 2010
  • Adelaide Graduate Research Scholarship for PhD in Mathematical and Computer Science (for International Students), 2010.

    Only 1 scholarship was awarded for Faulty of Engineering, and 3 scholarships were awarded university wide in this round